Vanessa lives a movie-star life. She has a gorgeous, rich fiance', a high-rise apartment in New York City, and never has to lift anything for herself except a glass of champagne. How did she get here? What brought her out of the shack her drug-addict mother raised her in to the glitz and glamour of New York City life? A girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do, right? Her story starts off like any other, but as her dark secrets come to light, the life she spun together begins to unravel.

Whitney Lowe is too comfortable. Nothing has changed from fifteen to twenty-five. Her boyfriend will never propose. The promotion she wants will never come. She doesn't know how she got here. So when her brother breaks his leg and offers her his non-refundable plane ticket and the apartment he already rented in Italy for a month, she blows up her life - only to have Alden Miller, her brother's best friend, blow up her vacation. Alden has always been a little out of reach for Whitney. He's two years older, a huge flirt, and lives life like a nomad. So there really isn't anyone better than him to show her how to find herself again.